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Building KDE4 From Source (Fedora Linux requirements)

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Toolchain

Install basic toolchain:

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

yum install subversion cmake

Install the yum-utils package to get yum-builddep: yum install yum-utils

Basic functional desktop

yum-builddep kdelibs kdebase akonadi

Full-optionals desktop

yum-builddep kdeaccessibility kdeadmin kdeartwork \


   kdebase kdebindings kdeedu kdegames kdegraphics \
   kdelibs kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdepim \
   kdepimlibs kdeplasma-addons kdesdk kdetoys \
   kdeutils akonadi

KOffice

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yum-builddep koffice-suite

Documentation

It generally requires the following tools installed: yum install doxygen graphviz qt-doc

Module prerequisites

To install prerequisites just run yum-builddep module-name

Where "module-name" is the name of the module you want to install

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